Why is it so difficult for a liberal to treat someone with respect?

Question

Need proof, look at all the name calling of Bush. People comparing him to hitler, saying him and Bin Laden are buds.

Can you believe people like that actually vote?

Get a grip on reality david s. Don't remember anyone calling Clinton hitler.

Answer 1

Because one must have self respect to give others respect and its obvious by all the reporting and insult slinging they have none for themselves or others

Answer 2

Should we look to someone like Ann Coulter as an example of how to treat people with respect??? Good idea, let's assume that all neatly dressed well groomed men are gay. Let's assume that all Liberals are immoral athiests. There are just as many Conservatives who throw insults and stereotypes in here.
Respect is something that is earned and not given. A title, a badge, rank, etc does not automatically entitle anyone to respect. It is what that individual does with it and how he or she treats people that entitles them to that respect.

Answer 3

Oh, please. On this site you have to wade through questions calling liberals everything from libtards to terrorist loving Godless socialists. There is no respect coming from either side, stop trying to act like the conservatives are so above it all. I remember the days when the Republicans were after Clinton. They called him everything from Slick Willie to a whoremonger and still do, so don't even try floating that crap about poor Bush getting no respect. Respect is earned by a President, we all respect the office, but when it is sullied by someone as arrogant and incompetent as George Bush we have a right to say so.

Answer 4

I have absolutely no problem treating people with respect. I have never compared Bush to Hitler.

I suggest you seriously read through some of these answers you get here, particularly those posted by conservatives, who claim that liberals are immature, morally bankrupt, idiotic and arrogant simply because liberals have a different political view point than them.

Seriously, who's showing disrespect to whom?

Answer 5

Not totally true. Extremists on both sides resort to this tactic. When Bill Clinton was President, the extreme on the other side did the same thing. While I'm not a fan of either President Clinton or President Bush, I still refer to them by their name and title when discussing them. I believe that the extremists do not realize how childish the name calling makes them appear. I've carried on civil discussions with liberals over issues we don't agree on and we don't resort to this kind of behavior. As for your latest addition to the question, Mad Cow Muller referred to President Clinton as Klintler.

Answer 6

His economic policies are moving in the dirrection of facisim, thats about as far as the hitler comparison actually goes in terms of actual merrit. If you know anything about economics you would have to reluctantley agree with me because those are facts, he has empowered big business and taken away from small business and the common emplyee.

I am a liberal and Bush diserves no respect at all. He deserves to have his mouth duct tapped around the other end of a toilet pipe and drown in the sh*t of the peoples lives that he as ruined (i.e everyone that has lost their job in the past 7 years and the soldires in Iraq that dont want to be there)

you dont deserve any respect either because your question was compltley hipocritical. You preach respect and yet give none...you must be a christian too...

dirty, dirty people these days....


EDIT AFTER READING OTHER RESPONSES: Henry VI....GREAT answer, they're so extreme they dont even use the proper deffinition of a liberal, they use it like an insult when im actually proud to be called a liberal (i prefer progressive though because thats really what the ideology is)

Sorry i dont want to send our country back to the stone age in terms of intelect and acceptance.

Answer 7

Behavioral Science. It's a case of arrested development. Liberals arrive at their conclusions through "feelings" and not actual thought(before any liberals attack this statement, Whoopi Goldberg, a liberal, makes this same assertion). When they disagree with someone it is not a matter differing ideas, it's a matter of them feeling personally attacked. Like a child or teenager(this is the arrested development part) they lash out at the perceived enemy and try to marginalize it by lowering their view of it rather than raising their self higher than it, or goodness me, actually admitting to being wrong.

Answer 8

You want proof that "him and bin laden are buds"?
Read and be enlightened:

"The 9/11 Commission Report Omissions & Distortions" by David Ray Griffin

"You're Not Stupid! Get The Truth", by William John Cox

People don't say that stuff just to hear themselves talk.

Speaking of respect. One must earn respect in order to get respect. George W. Bush has not earned my respect. While I respect his office and the title I do not respect the man who currently holds that office and that title.

To you I am a liberal, which I am not totally, by the way, because anyone to your immediate left is a liberal. When one is so far to the right the center is on the horizon and not even close a centerist or even a progressive Republican is a liberal to them.

Answer 9

Oh come on , we see this here day by day from both sides. Is see Hillary Clinton called Hitlery about 250 times a day.
I'm outstanding and honestly I think a lot of Conservatives are everything but decent and mannerly.

Answer 10

Just thee swing of the pendulum dude. Bill Clinton was called many a horrible names by those who now support Bush and whine the loudest. Does that include you?
FYI I have never compared Bush to Hitler but I am sure is is a corrupt lying whore.

Answer 11

You can't blame a certain amount of anger toward a President that blatantly duped America into a war. The sad part is that the average American who has woke up to this fact and even voted for him can't shoulder their part of the responsibility. They throw the mud that they should coat themselves with